South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-03

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browns srave at North EibA OF
Tuesday.
ut. Aetna is sgsin 10 eruption.
TIE ,hirty-third annual sessiou
Of tho Grand Lodge OF Good Templar,
OF the World is being held at Sarato-
ga. New York. Nearly every coun
Try in the worli Is represented.
The six b annual congress- OF the
working. mep's clubs OF the Unite
States and Canada Was held In Cam.
den. New Jersey, last eek.
Henry j. Rsnsdell. sx-rexisier oi
wills OF the District OF Columbia, and
well.kuown journalist. died In
Washington recently.
The Survivors OF ptskct,'s Confed.
crate Division held o meeting In
Richmond for the purpose of effectipc
p rmaneut organization. and to fin.
ally decide as To the monuments To-
cation, aud to take steps towards q
reunion. Itiscertain the monument
which is to commemorate Pickett q
famous charge At Getty sburg, will not
be erected at Gettysburg. AZ a. fret
proposed. and Il Is probable Rich
mond will be chosen.
Baltimore, Howard, Carroll and
Prince Georges counties. in Mary.
lapd. have been declared under quar-
antine by the commissioners of agri
culture en- account OF pleur o pncumo.
MIA am ing cattle there.
In the New York Senate a resolu
ton was adopted requesting the may.
ors. corpor alton counsel and comp.
trolIers Of New York and Brookly n
to report 10 the next Legislature the
advisabi,ity Of consolidating the two
| cities.
Mrs. Henry wari Beether is in
feeble health.
The trial Of Miller, for the killing
of Millard White, near Paw. Paw, las,
winter, will commence at Winchester
on June 9Th.
+! The Cumberland Prcsby te rian As,
sembly. in session at Covington, KY.
voted unanimously in favor OF unior
with the M,tho'..ist Protestant church
The Anglo Turkish convention
relative TO Egypt provides for tn,
maintenance Of all existing firmans
the neutraliza'i ion of the Suez canal
guaranteeing internationally the in
volatility Of Egypt; that the b itisi
shall withdraw from Egypt In thr .
years unless the country is threaten
ed with danger either internal or ex
ternal; that England shall, after th,
withdrawal OF her trot ps, supervis,
the whole Egyptian army tor two
years further with the right to re-oc
cupy with or without the aid OF Turk
ish troops If order is dis, urbed or in
vasion feared.
Two huadrei persons lost thei
lives by The burning OF a Theatre, tn,
Opera comiqno, in Paris We!nes,iav
On Thursday, GO bodies were seer
floating in five feet OF water which
had been thrown into the bottom O
the building The most Of the bod
les found were those Of dancers, sing
ers and inachinists, though many O
the audience, also, persisted. Anon,
the audience were Gen. I,oulanger
Gen. Saussier, Gen. Thihaudin. NJ
Goblet, NJ. Berthe OF and the Marquis
Ferronays, project OF police. They
all escaped unaurt. In the Rue Fa.
vart sudden gust Of wind clearet
away The dense smoke, when q woma,
and two men were seen sanding il
an angle of the uppermost cornice
The woman tried to jump, but tn,
men prevented her. When al wer,
finally rescued the woman was raw
ing maniac. A singer had miracu,
lous escape from q dressing room il
an angle at tie top of the tn lding
He says that the wind kept the flames
off that part OF the building, but i.
ger OF molten lead poured from the
roof, the course OF which he div,r,eG
with board to prevent the weight
carrying down the sbaky floor. The
Chamber of Deputies voted credi
OF 100000. for the relief Of sufferers
| by tho fire.
The Consolidated street car stables
in Cincinnati, Ohio. we're partially
borned Friday. No horses or lives
lost.
Sixty villas we're destroyed By fire
in 80. Pete 'sburg. Russia.
The Pope has created Two new car
dinals. Mgr. Palette aud Father
Bausa.
They arc trying TO kill the Sultan
OF Turkey, as well as the Gar OF Rus
STA, over in Europe.
The President has appointed l.. W.
Reid, Of Virginia, assistant register
Of the treasury.
Tue New York Legislature adjourn.
ed Thursday.
Seventy dwellings, mostly
frame, 9 soap factory, lager beer
brewery, 900 horses and several
hundred street.cars we're destroyed
by a terrible FIRE which broke out in
tue Belt Line stables, on Tenth ave-
nue., Between Fifty third and Fifty
fourth Streets New York. Fiiday
morning. Most OF the burned build
ings we're teDemeut-bouses. occupied
by poor peCple. who lost all their
property.
Three men were killed by an ex-
plosion OF gas at Nanticoke, Pa.
Cholera Is raging terribly In Bupn.
% Ayres, Souta America, as - small
pox in Cuba.